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Deaths up 14%, natural live births down 28%, Disability up 37.5% – NZ official birth and death figures for 12 months to the end...

Stats NZ released the official figures for births and deaths for the period 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2023 today. The short summary accompanying the...

Bryce Edwards: How Labour’s tax cut will do little but benefit the rich

Who would profit most from Labour’s GST-exemption policy? It won’t be those struggling with the cost of living – the average shopper is unlikely to...

‘$250 million amateur error in Labour’s GST costing’ – National

A closer look at Labour’s costings for their policy to remove GST from fruit and vegetables reveals a schoolboy error equating to quarter-of-a-billion-dollar hole,...

De-Carbonization Transition Therapy — World’s Premiere Test Lab, New Zealand, Pitched to Pilot ‘Net Zero Carbon Economy’ —Amid Resource Wars for $270T Global Refit

Blackrock Funds South Pacific Nation’s Transition to ‘Net Zero Carbon Economy’. The stealthy signing of a partnership deal between BlackRock and New Zealand’s Government sets...

Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll: Labour crashing

This month's Taxpayers' Union poll also sees NZ First back in parliament. The results of the poll have National and ACT being able to form...

The Uninformed Election that has become a Gateway to Chaos

After three years of pandemic pandemonium that has all but destroyed the New Zealand we knew and loved, we are heading into an election...

Guardian poll: Labour ‘languishing’, NZ First back in parliament

The poll conducted by Esstential for UK legacy media outlet The Guardian shows cost of living concerns could dominate this year's election. Undecided voters came...

Guy Hatchard: Why do we ask the same questions again and again?

Someone wrote to us after our last article “Startling revelations change everything New Zealanders have been schooled to believe” and complained that my writing...

Does NZ need a ‘Declaration of Unity’?

The United States made their Declaration of Independence in 1776, and South Africa established their ‘Reconciliation’ in 1995. Those were historic, nation defining events that...

Jail time for shooting pictures of politicians

Christchurch man Nathan Raureti Symington was sentenced yesterday to 2 years and 6 months jail for distributing 'objectionable material' and possession of a firearm. Symington...

Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?

Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told the Spinoff he’s reading “The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax and how to...

Our enemy, the State

Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era? Billions, if you were...

Government to review weather forecasting system

The Government has commissioned a review of New Zealand’s weather forecasting system, State Owned Enterprises Minister Duncan Webb says. “MetService and NIWA have capability critical...

Firearms Safety Authority privacy breach

Firearms Safety Authority (FSA) can confirm that earlier this afternoon it’s Auckland District Office sent an email to 147 recipients that revealed the email...

Bryce Edwards: Chris Hipkins failed to prevent the Kiri Allan tragedy

Electoral calculation was surely at the centre of Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ unfortunate decision to keep flailing Minister Kiri Allan on in her job...

Hipkins announces reallocation of portfolios in wake of Kiri Allan resignation

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced the reallocation of Kiri Allan’s ministerial portfolios, promoting newer Ministers who have demonstrated promise. “Ginny Andersen will become the...

NZ First campaign launch, Winston: ‘Let’s take back our country’

New Zealand First launched its campaign for this year's general election at Mt. Smart Stadium today. Leader Winston Peters called the election 'the most critical...

Guy Hatchard: While you were sleeping…

Under urgency the government has passed the Therapeutic Products Bill while we were distracted by the world cup and the violent events in Auckland....

Open Letter To Dr. Shane Reti, National Party Spokesperson on Health

Dear Dr. Reti I would like to commend your efforts over the last three months to accompany ambulance staff up and down the country as they...

Prime Minister’s statement on Kiri Allan

Full text statement of Chris Hipkins released today. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins met with Kiri Allan this morning to discuss her recent leave and allegations...

Bryce Edwards: The Era of complacency over political conflicts of interest is over

Michael Wood has become a victim of his own complacency about conflicts of interest. He simply didn’t take integrity rules meant to protect the New...

Michael ‘River of filth’ Wood resigns from portfolio, Hipkins outlines new Ministerial disclosure scheme

'River of filth' Wood is now officially up the creek. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has accepted the resignation of Transport Minister Michael Wood. In a press...

A nation divided and misinformed cannot progress. It is time for scientists to set the record straight

On March 29 2021 Dr. Rochelle Walensky then Director of the US CDC reassured the American public and the world on MSNBC "Vaccinated people do...

Bryce Edwards: The Troubling report into Stuart Nash’s conflicts of interest

Maybe we’ve all got scandal fatigue. This is the best explanation for why there’s not more public and media concern in the wake of the...

Matt King responds to statement of DemocracyNZ ex-candidates, Steve Cranston speaks

King spoke to Paul Brennan of Reality Check Radio this morning to give his side of the story. King said the catalyst for the walkout...

DemocracyNZ resignations: Ex-candidates release statement

As reported yesterday, five candidates of the DemocracyNZ party tendered their resignations over the weekend. Four of them, Dr. Matt Shelton, Lee Smith, Kirsten Murfitt...

Five candidates resign from DemocracyNZ

Party leader Matt King told supporters via a Facebook video that he will be making a statement on the walkout in the next few...

Meng Foon resigns as Race Relations Commissioner

Foon today confirmed his intention to resign, following revelations in April that he and his family made donations to Labour MP Kiritapu Allan, including...

Bryce Edwards: Does Michael Wood have enough integrity to be a Minister?

New Zealanders are supposed to be able to trust that there are adequate systems in place to ensure our politicians aren’t corrupt. There are mandatory...

Hollow accolades

“Too often we honour swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives...

A proposal that would make us the Hermit Kingdom of the South Pacific

The Dept of Internal Affairs is proposing a new regulator of online content who can censor and penalise according to ill defined/subjective criteria. It's...

The King’s Birthday Honours List 2023 – Ardern becomes a dame

The list of New Zealanders awarded honours for the King's Birthday 2023 follows. To be Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand Queen Camilla,...

How the US military-industrial complex has used think tanks to hijack EU policymaking

Masquerading as advisories, these organizations are really operating as lobby groups – and their influence is growing. Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has warned that...

Letter to King Charles III

The Letter to King Charles III on His Coronation 6 May, 2023 is in celebration of the special relationship between two Sovereigns: The Rangatira...

Guy Hatchard: Inside the Covid Cult

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has announced that the incidence of atrial fibrillation has increased by 50% over the last decade. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is...

Politically Homeless – Nobody Someone new song about NZ Election 2023 released

'We've got five parties of death currently sitting in The Beehive.' The hundreds-of-thousands of Kiwis who are currently disillusioned, need to vote strategically in the...

Regulations pave the way for first comprehensive digital Firearms Registry

With the release today of the Arms Amendment Regulations enabling New Zealand’s first comprehensive digital Firearms Registry, licence holders can now see how the...

Jab safety and efficacy Royal Commission petition referred to Petitions Committee

The petition was delivered to the House Clerk for presentation to Parliament today. Petition organiser Aly Cook told supporters in an email the petition was...

Roy Morgan Poll: National/ACT ahead of Labour/Greens, DemocracyNZ steady

On today's results the Maori Party would likely hold the balance of power. Today's poll saw the National/ACT block (44.5%) ease slightly ahead of the...

IRD report shows wealthy NZers pay much lower tax rates than other earners

Inland Revenue research released today reveals a large differential between the tax rates ordinary New Zealanders pay on their full income compared with the...

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